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Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 



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1 -| He firft kindc of Filipendula hath Icaues growing and fpred abroad like feathers,each 



leafeconfiftingof fundryfnall leaues dented or fnipt round about the edges, grow- 

 ing to the ftalke by a fmall and (lender Item : thefe leaues refcmble wilde Tanfie or 

 Bumet, but that they be longer and thicker, let like feathers, as isaforefaid ; among thefe rife vp 

 ihlkesacubitandahalfe higb 3 at the top whereof grow many fairc white floures,each fmall floure 

 coafifting of fix flender leaues 5 like a little ftar,buihing together in a tuft like the floures of Mede- 

 iireet, of a foft fweet fmcll : the feed is (mail , and groweth together like a button : the roots are 

 fmall and blacks, whereupon depend many little knops or blacke pellets, much like the roots of 

 the female Pconie,lauing that they be a great deale fmaller. 



1 The fecond kinde of Filipendula, called of Pen* in his Obferuations, oenmbt^ five Philiptn- 

 duU altera monttna, is neither at this day very well knowne, neither did theold Writers heretofore 

 oncewriteorfpeakeof it; but Pena that painefull Herbarift found it growing naturally in Nar- 

 bonc in France, neerc vnto Veganium,on the top of the high hillscalled Paradtfm Demand neerc 

 vnto the mountaine Calcaris : this rare plant hath many knobby long roots, in fhape 1 ike to Afobo- 

 dclm iuitus^ or rather like the roots ofCorntda, or wilde AJparagus s from which riTech vp a ftalke a 

 loot high 3 and morc,which is thicke 3 round,and chanelled,befet full of leaues like thofe of common 

 Filipcndula,but they be not fo thickc fet or winged,but more like vnto the leaues of a Thift le^con- 

 fifting of fundry fmall leaues, in fafhion like to Coronofm R*etiij\that is, Ruelltus bis Buckes-horne : 

 round about the tops of the ftalke there groweth a very faire tuft of white floures, refembling fine 

 fmall hoods, growing clofe and thicke together like the floures of Pedicular^ that is. Red Rattle. 



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